This looks useful. There have been times when I wanted to run an app from my home dir on a server at work, but installing it requires a lot of making and configuring and installing and operations support. I had resorted to using Go for a lot of stuff since there are Go binaries for just about everything, and Go executables can be made to run just about anywhere.

As I’ve mentioned before, we use CVS at my job. I use Git for personal projects, and I wanted to install a copy on our build server at work. I have root access to that box, but I prefer to contain my changes to my user when possible. I know that building statically linked binaries is frowned upon, but I didn’t see much of an alternative in my case, at least in the short term. Anyway, here are the instructions I followed: